Over 30,000 relocated due to disaster threats in SW China

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Press Trust of India Beijing
Last Updated : Jul 31 2017 | 9:16 PM IST
Over 30,000 people were relocated in China's southwestern Sichuan Province following a month- long check of geological disaster threats, according to local authorities.
The check was conducted by more than 2,000 investigators in 176 counties, after a landslide left 83 people dead or missing in Maoxian county in June, according to a leading group for the work.
The investigators examined about 38,000 existing sites with geological disaster threats and found over 4,000 new sites. The relocated residents came from 671 sites identified as having imminent dangers, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.
Suffering a 8-magnitude earthquake in 2008 and a 7- magnitude earthquake in 2013, Sichuan is vulnerable to geological disaster.

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First Published: Jul 31 2017 | 9:16 PM IST

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